Graduate School Newsletter
Welcome!
This page will be updated monthly with professional development and wellness resources and opportunities for graduate students.
Thanks for checking out our monthly newsletter page. Please see below for what resources and opportunities are available this month for graduate students.
April Newsletter
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Mental Health and Wellness Podcast
This podcast features UM graduate students (aka your peers!) and focuses on mental health and professional development. The most recent episode is a cool look at antidepressants. You can subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, or you can listen on our Mental Health and Wellness podcast page.
Curry Health Center
Check out Wellness Services at Curry for more information on things like Nicotine Quit Kits, Safe Sex Supplies, Health Coaching, and others!
Did you know that mental health support is right here on campus? Curry Counseling Services offers one-on-one counseling for just $20 per session.
Well-being Support Coordinators
Being a Graduate Student is hard. You don't have to do it alone.
As a graduate student at the University of Montana, you have access to free well-being support services through our Wellbeing Support Coordinator, Olivia Kern.
Olivia provides one-on-one support in a confidential and supportive setting around the topics of:
- Anxiety & Stress
- Sleep
- Movement and Nutrition
- Time Management
- Connecting to the right resources (food security, academic support, mental health services, etc.)
Click this link to schedule a free online or in-person appointment or contact Olivia directly at olivia.kern@mso.umt.edu
Newsletter Archive
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Please visit here for our December newsletter!
WRITING CENTER OPPORTUNITIES
Mark your calendars for Tuesdays in October! The Writing Center and the Mansfield Library begin their collaborative workshop series, Strategies for Graduate Student Writers, next week. In-person workshops are from 12-1pm at the Davidson Honors College, room 023; online workshops are from 6:30-7:30pm via zoom. An additional half-hour will be available for questions and discussion.
- October 3: Get rolling on your writing: Managing your writing process and staying organized
- October 10: Lit reviews are hard, Part 1: Finding, analyzing and using sources
- October 17: Lit reviews are hard, Part 2: Organizing and synthesizing your research
- October 24: Publishing demystified: Writing journal articles and exploring publication options
Register for one or more workshop here. For information on other programming, including weekly writing groups, and 2024 Jump Start Writing Retreats, visit the Writing Center’s For Graduate Students page. Questions? Email writingcenter@umontana.edu.
Measuring Graduate Student Well-Being
Some of the initiatives listed here are informed by our ongoing mental health and well-being climate survey.
This survey inquired about your social life, stress level, and relationships with the campus community as well as your department at UM. We are especially interested to use the data from this survey to improve on our mental health initiatives next semester and for years to come.
We requested students to complete the 2023-24 online survey, which took about 20 minutes. If you completed it last year (spring 2022), we requested to do so again, as we are studying year-over-year changes in the student population.
Completing the survey entered you into a drawing for one of five $100 gift cards.
We look forward to seeing you access the health and wellness resources UM Graduate School has to offer.
You can also use the QR code below to take the survey:
